Posts of type: Need To Know
Oct 27, 2011
Need To Know - Common Ground
In an effort to create a better environment for American job creators, the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives today passed a bill to permanently repeal a 3 percent withholding requirement on certain payments made to contractors doing business with federal, state and local governments.
Oct 21, 2011
Need To Know - Coal Ash
The U.S. House of Representatives recently advanced a bill that would facilitate the safe recovery of coal combustion residuals by creating a state-based permit program.
Oct 19, 2011
Guest Column In The Meridian Star: The Facts
The president has spent much of the last month traveling the country asking Congress to put party aside and “pass the bill,” referring to his $447 billion “jobs” plan. But if the president were to get off the campaign trail and focus on the facts, he would learn that House Republicans have already advanced a pro-growth agenda that creates jobs without expanding the federal government’s role.
Oct 16, 2011
Need To Know - Protect Life
The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill this week ensuring that nothing in the president’s health care law allows anyone implementing the act – including states – to require “coverage of, access to, or training in abortion services.”
Oct 14, 2011
Need To Know - Boiler Bill
As Congress continues down Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s regulatory relief checklist to help business and industry, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill yesterday peeling back four interrelated U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules.
Oct 7, 2011
Need To Know - MACT Impact
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill this week that aims to reduce the regulatory burden imposed by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules on America’s job creators.
Sep 23, 2011
Need To Know - TRAIN
House lawmakers today advanced a second antiregulatory bill in as many weeks in response to a new White House directive for utility plants that will negatively impact electricity prices for nearly all American consumers.
Sep 15, 2011
Need To Know - Jobs Up In The Air
The U.S. House of Representatives today passed the “Protecting Jobs From Government Interference Act” in response to a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regulation which aims to keep an aircraft assembly line in Washington as opposed to South Carolina, a right to work state.
Sep 9, 2011
Need To Know - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Last night the president used a nationally televised address to a joint session of Congress to introduce his latest plan for job creation. While I agree with the president that we must get folks back to work, I do not believe that another failed stimulus is the answer.
Aug 23, 2011
Need To Know - All-Of-The-Above Energy
As a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, I have the privilege of influencing national energy and environmental policy. The Energy and Commerce Committee has produced legislation to save taxpayers $90 billion, protect nearly four million jobs from being destroyed by job-crushing regulations, and create another 150,000 jobs through the “American Energy Initiative” legislation to increase the production of American-made energy.
